In the rolling hills around San Diego and its suburbs, the rumble of bulldozers and the whine of power saws fill the air as a slew of new homes and apartments rise up.
Researchers Discover Drug-Resistant Mould Is Capable of Infecting People
A new study led by Imperial College London finds that drug-resistant mould is spreading from the environment and infecting susceptible people’s lungs.
NOAA’s Observations Help EPA Track Emissions of a Family of Greenhouse Gases
EPA has included a comparison of NOAA’s atmospheric emission estimates of four HFCs to its own inventory-based estimates in the just-released U.S. Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks
Bean Cultivation in Diverse Agricultural Landscapes Promotes Bees and Increases Yields
Researchers led by Göttingen University study bee behaviour and bean harvests
Breakthrough in Estimating Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions
A team of scientists led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) has made a major breakthrough in detecting changes in fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions more quickly and frequently.
Rice University Geobiologist Tapped for Antarctic Drilling Mission
Rice University geobiologist Jeanine Ash is participating in an Antarctic mission that aims to recover the first direct evidence that can answer one of the biggest questions about 21st-century climate change: How much will sea level rise and how fast?
Kaua‘i’s 2018 Record-Setting Rain Caused by a Series of Supercell Thunderstorms
A record-setting rainstorm over Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i in April 2018 resulted in severe flash flooding and estimated damage of nearly $180 million.
Logging “Amplified” Severity of Black Summer Bushfires
An analysis of the fire footprint of the 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires has found logging elevated the risk of high-severity fires.
Evaporative Demand Increase Across Lower 48 Means Less Water Supplies, Drier Vegetation, and Higher Fire Risk
New research led by Desert Research Institute scientists shows that atmospheric thirst is a persistent force in pushing Western landscapes and water supplies toward drought.
Study Illustrates Nuances of Gravitational Pull of Ice Sheets
It is well known that global warming is causing sea levels to rise via two processes: thermal expansion, when water expands because of its increased temperature, and melting of land-based ice, when meltwater flows into the ocean.